When is it cheaper to rent a Bulldozer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $125 day rate would be $875, but the weekly rate caps it at $800.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bulldozer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,100 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Bulldozer

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Patrick Wyeth · Dozers and Crawler Loaders

Day: $125
Week: $800
28 days: $2,100

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $875. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,250. On the 28-day rate it is $2,100.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Bulldozer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$125	$125	—	day
2	$250	$250	—	day
3	$375	$375	—	day
4	$500	$500	—	day
5	$625	$625	—	day
6	$750	$750	—	day
7	$875	$800	you save $75	week
8	$1,000	$925	you save $75	week
9	$1,125	$1,050	you save $75	week
10	$1,250	$1,175	you save $75	week
11	$1,375	$1,300	you save $75	week
12	$1,500	$1,425	you save $75	week
13	$1,625	$1,550	you save $75	week
14	$1,750	$1,600	you save $150	week
15	$1,875	$1,725	you save $150	week
16	$2,000	$1,850	you save $150	week
17	$2,125	$1,975	you save $150	week
18	$2,250	$2,100	you save $150	28-day
19	$2,375	$2,100	you save $275	28-day
20	$2,500	$2,100	you save $400	28-day
21	$2,625	$2,100	you save $525	28-day
22	$2,750	$2,100	you save $650	28-day
23	$2,875	$2,100	you save $775	28-day
24	$3,000	$2,100	you save $900	28-day
25	$3,125	$2,100	you save $1,025	28-day
26	$3,250	$2,100	you save $1,150	28-day
27	$3,375	$2,100	you save $1,275	28-day
28	$3,500	$2,100	you save $1,400	28-day
29	$3,625	$2,225	you save $1,400	day
30	$3,750	$2,350	you save $1,400	day
31	$3,875	$2,475	you save $1,400	day
32	$4,000	$2,600	you save $1,400	day
33	$4,125	$2,725	you save $1,400	day
34	$4,250	$2,850	you save $1,400	day
35	$4,375	$2,900	you save $1,475	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.